Culinary utensil.



l. LINDGREN. CULINARY UTENSIL.

APPLICATION FILEDl JAN. 15. |915.

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a Ispecification.

culinary utensils, and more UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

INGEBORG LINDGREN, 0F MALMO, EBRASKA.

CULINARY UTENSIL.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct.`10, 1916.

' Application led January 15, 1915. Serial No. 2,389.

l To all whom t may concern Be it lmown that I, INGEBORG LINDGREN,

a citizen ofthe United States of America, `residing at Malmo, in the county of Saunders and `State of Nebraska, have invente certain new and' useful;- Improvements in Culinary'Utensils, of which the followingis This invention relates to improvements in articularly to a pot or pan protector in w ch a false bot'- tom is employed toprevent burning of the contents. y

With theforegoingv and "other objects in view the invention consists Vin the combinasponding parts throughout the vseveral views.

The reference numeral 1 designatesl a pot 4or kettle used for boiling or cookingfood,

' 'ter adapted to be placed inside the 2 is a false bottom of slightly smaller diame- The. false bottom or protector 2 is formed with a down-turned rim 2a and with feet 2* upon which it rests in normal .position and with two or more concentric grooves 3, 4 and with ridges 5, 6, 7 theridges, 6 being formed'with a plurality of apertures 8 'and the ridge 7 with asingle aperture 9, After 'the protector is placed in the kettle the requisite amount of water is poured int'o the kettle.

kettle 1.

Should enough water evaporate during the boiling process to bring the Water level below the plane of the ridges 5, 6, 7 a certain amount of water will remainin the grooves 3, 4. The water being removed from the ire a greater distance than the'water below the protector will remain in liquid form a considerable time after allwater in the vessel l.

has evaporated and the waten so remaining will be suflicient. to prevent burning of the food being cooked upon the protector. The

apertures 8, 9 are air holes and permit an air circulation that will tend yto keep the heat of the re away 'fromt the water in -the grooves and from the food.` What is claimedviszv `I1. A protector forfood in culinary vessels", having a downturned rim and a plurality of concentric grooves for holding a residuurn of water when the gamer-al level .of the water descends below the' upper surface of said protector,` said pluralityV of concentric grooves having their bottoms upraised out of contact with the heater to retain the water in said grooves from evaporation.

. 2. As a new article vof manufacture, a kettle protector formed of a piecelof metal provided with feet, said metal being provided withaplurality of concentric grooves disposed i-n a plane above the plane of the lower edge of the rim, and with a plurality o f resultant ridges, said ridges being formed with air holes. i f

In testimony that I claim thev foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two, subscribinwitnesses.

INGEBORG-'LIN GREN.

Witnesses;

HERMAN LIND,

F. W. Vrmar.. 

